Ukrainian forces have continued to lose ground to Russia in the country’s eastern Donetsk region, with Moscow determined not to have its plans to capture the territory undermined by Kyiv’s incursion into Kursk.
The UK’s defence ministry said on X on Sunday that Russian forces were now within 10km of the logistics hub of Pokrovsk, though it added that their advance would probably slow as they approached more built-up areas.
Pokrovsk serves as a thoroughfare to other major Ukrainian-controlled towns in the Donetsk region, such as Kramatorsk and Kostyantynivka, as well as providing road links to central Ukraine. Its capture would undermine Ukrainian forces defence of the rest of the region.
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